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Alcibiades and Timon
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 10 5/16 inches (28.1 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Title page for "The Guardian"
Creator:
Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 × 4 1/2 inches (15.2 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jupiter and Callisto: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
Creator:
Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:
ca. 1723
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches (11 x 9.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5
Creator:
Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:
ca. 1723
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 5 11/16 x 8 3/4 inches (14.5 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Portentous Things
Creator:
George Jones, 1786–1869
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, brown wash, black chalk, white chalk, and graphite, with scraping out on smooth, thin, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 3/4 × 19 3/8 inches (60.3 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Nature unveils herself to the infant Shakespeare: Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy, III.1
Creator:
William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 inches (29.8 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Faust and Margaret
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, watercolor and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (24.8 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sheet of Sketches
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite; verso: pen and brown ink and graphite on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (24.1 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ferdinand Riding the Waves
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gray wash and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (24.8 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Prospero Watching Ferdinand and Miranda
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with black chalk and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (21.9 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

111. Hecate

Hecate
Creator:
George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:
1815
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 inches (21.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Sketches for a Scene from 'Macbeth'
Creator:
Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:
ca. 1811
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 5/16 x 20 inches (41.5 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Costume Design for two Morris Dancers
Creator:
Alfred Thompson, ca. 1833–1895
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink with red pencil on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 3 3/4 inches (13.7 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

114. L'Allegro

L'Allegro
Creator:
Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, watercolor and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 7/8 inches (16.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse
Creator:
Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:
1949
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (26.7 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Shakespeare Illustration: "Measure for Measure"
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 inches (16.2 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
Shakespeare Illustration: "Henry VIII"
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 inches (16.5 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
Venus and Cupid
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash and gouache on medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper mounted to medium slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (19.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Professor Richard L. Purdy
An Ancient Inscription in the Post House at Argos
Creator:
Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:
1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (28.9 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscriptions in Greek Alphabet
Creator:
Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:
1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 9/16 inches (24 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscriptions in Greek Alphabet
Creator:
Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:
1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 5/8 inches (11.7 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Two Figures on a Balcony
Creator:
Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 3/8 inches (16.8 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Prince Regent, Scene iV
Creator:
Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:
1812
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/16 × 7 inches (11.3 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Figures in a Cave
Creator:
Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:
1805
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 inches (11.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for Burying the Royal Children
Creator:
James Northcote, 1746–1831
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 11 1/4 inches (43.2 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Prospero Summoning Ariel
Creator:
William Young Ottley, 1771–1836
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, gouache, white chalk, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches (31.6 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Scene from "The Abbot"
Creator:
Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, Fund
Six Designs for Nichol's - Architecture of the Heavens - Spirits of Peace
Creator:
David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:
1848
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, traced on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 7 7/16 inches (26.5 × 18.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Six Designs for Nichol's - Architecture of the Heavens: Lycho and Kepler: Observations and Generalizations
Creator:
David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:
1848
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 8 11/16 inches (27.9 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
SixDesigns for Nichol's - Architecture of the Heavens - Man Seeking and Sought and Raised by Thought
Creator:
David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:
1848
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, red chalk, traced on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 5/8 inches (27.8 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Illustration for Don Quixote (with figures on a donkey)
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 x 4in. (12.7 x 10.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights' (with female figure reclining at left)
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and black ink on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/8 inches (11.4 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to the Iliad
Creator:
John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:
between 1760 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (23.5 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare
Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (21 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Illustration to Rob Roy: Interior with a Party Drinking
Creator:
William Henry Pyne, 1769–1843
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 5/16 inches (11.7 × 18.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Tenth Day of the Decameron
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/8 x 8in. (27 x 20.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (one of four)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (35.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (35.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (two of four)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 3/8 inches (35.9 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Greatheart's Battle with Grim
Creator:
Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/8 × 4 inches (12.4 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lear in the Storm
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and scraping, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, peach wove paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 30 1/16 x 24 15/16 inches (76.3 x 63.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Sleepwalking Scene in Macbeth
Creator:
Henry Pierce Bone, 1779–1855
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, graphite and traces of white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (50.5 x 35.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Duel: 'Twelfth Night,' Act III, Scene IV
Creator:
Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, red ink, black ink, brown ink, gum arabic, graphite, and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 1/8 × 16 13/16 inches (56.2 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Death of Cordelia
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, red crayon, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Launce Teaching His Dog Crab
Creator:
Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, red chalk, black chalk, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 16 5/16 x 20 3/8 inches (41.5 x 51.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Falstaff Carrying Dead Hotspur
Creator:
Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache, and gum arabic on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 16 3/8 x 20 1/4 inches (41.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Falstaff Disguised as Herne
Creator:
John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 x 10 3/16 inches (28.9 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath
Creator:
George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (19 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
MacBeth: The Banquet Scene - MacBeth, Act II, Scene IV
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and watercolor on thin, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 9 inches (22.9 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Cleopatra on the Cydnus to Meet Antony
Creator:
Alfred Edward Chalon, 1780–1860
Date:
ca. 1821
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with gray wash and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches (49.6 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer
Creator:
Alfred Edward Chalon, 1780–1860
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and brown wash on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (31.8 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer
Creator:
John James Chalon, 1778–1854
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and brown wash on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 13/16 × 16 1/8 inches (32.5 × 41 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Land of Beulah
Creator:
Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:
1881
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 7/8 x 11 3/8 inches (20 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Six Designs for Nichol's - Architecture of the Heavens - Footprint of Diety Receding Systems
Creator:
David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:
1848
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, traced on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 8 5/8 inches (21.9 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
SixDesigns for Nichol's - Architecture of the Heavens - Man and Woman Unite in Praise
Creator:
David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:
1848
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 9/16 inches (27.3 × 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Mefistofile II
Creator:
George Augustus Sala, 1828–1895
Date:
1880
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 9 1/2 inches (19.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Cartoon for "Gulliver Taking Leave of the Land of Houyhnhms"
Creator:
Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:
between 1768 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/16 × 10 11/16 inches (21.1 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
Illustration to the Maids of Elfen-Mere
Creator:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882
Date:
1854
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with pen and black ink and pen and brown ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches (13 x 8.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Lady Jane Grey
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache, oil, and pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 9 inches (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene from Don Quixote
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, graphite, and varnish, with scratching out; squared for transfer on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Image: 8 3/8 × 6 3/8 inches (21.3 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration
Creator:
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 15/16 × 6 11/16 inches (10 × 17 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration
Creator:
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 3 3/4 inches (16.2 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Ancient Inscription in the Walls of the Venetian Govenor's House, Mystras
Creator:
Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:
1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.5 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

164. Portia

Portia
Creator:
Edward Robert Hughes, 1851–1914
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Red chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted to board
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 × 29 inches (53.3 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Scene from Quentin Durward
Creator:
Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (21.6 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Daughters of Cecrops discover Ericthonius: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
Creator:
Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:
1723
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Homer's Iliad
Creator:
Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:
1723
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (13.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 2 15/16in. (12.1 x 7.5cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918
One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 11/16 x 2 7/8in. (11.9 x 7.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918
One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 5/8 x 2 7/8in. (11.7 x 7.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918
One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 7/8in. (11.6 x 7.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918
One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918
One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918
Macbeth and the Witches
Creator:
James Northcote, 1746–1831
Date:
between 1777 and 1778
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (32.4 x 41.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Thomas Weston as Spy in Bates "The Rival Candidates"
Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 4 3/8 inches (15.9 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher
Creator:
Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 inches (17.5 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Aesop's Fables: The Fox & the Crane
Creator:
Follower of Francis Barlow, 1622–1704
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/8 × 5 7/8 inches (12.4 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Gulliver Bound by the Lilliputians
Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, rough, blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 6 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (17.5 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Murder of Banquo
Creator:
George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (18.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Celadon and Amelia from Thomson's 'The Seasons'
Creator:
Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (15.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene of Three Witches from Shakespeare's Macbeth
Creator:
George Cattermole, 1800–1868
Date:
1840
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 inches (24.8 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphis (four of four)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 8 3/8 inches (35.6 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Feste, as Sir Topas, addressing Malvolio
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache and oil, partly varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 5/16 inches (16.7 x 11 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Christopher Sly and the Page, as His Wife
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 x 4 7/16 inches (16.3 x 11.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Claudio and Isabella
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1823
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/8 x 4 inches (13 x 10.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ferdinand Reunited with his Father
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 15/16 x 4 5/16 inches (15.1 x 11 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Viola and Olivia
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 3/8 inches (16.7 x 11.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Prospero Conjuring a Masque for Ferdinand and Miranda
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 15/16 x 6 9/16 inches (12.6 x 16.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Malvolio abusing Maria, Fabian and Sir Toby
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil, partly varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 4 5/16 inches (15.5 x 11 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for "Gulliver's Travels"
Creator:
Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (21.6 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor Robert Halsband
Malvolio: Possibly a Self-Portrait in the Role
Creator:
John Boyne, ca. 1750–1810
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black and gray wash with pen and black ink, scraping, graphite, and red pencil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 15/16 × 6 1/16 inches (22.7 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Studies for Shylock
Creator:
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper joined to thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:
Mount: 15 × 18 7/8 inches (38.1 × 47.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Head of a Man with a Beard and Long Hair in the Wind
Creator:
Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with black ink and brown wash, verso: pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 5/8 inches (16.8 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for 'Finding of the Body of Bassanio'
Creator:
Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:
1804
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 inches (30.8 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Prospero and Ariel
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (15 x 12 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Falstaff Instructing Bardolph
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 4 1/2 inches (15.2 x 11.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lysander Awakening to See Helena
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (16.5 x 10.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban with Prospero's Magic Wardrobe
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (16.8 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Falstaff Dragging the Body of Hotspur
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/8 x 4 15/16 inches (16.2 x 12.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Anne Page and Slender
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 7/16 inches (18.8 x 11.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection